Heroogony

//ˌhi.ɹoʊˈɑ.ɡə.ni//

"Heroogony" in a Sentence (3 examples)

[…] the last portion, which is in fact a heroogony, being an account of the heroes born by mortal morthers whose charms had drawn the immortals from Olympus.

The Theogony consists of a cosmogony, a theogony proper, and an unfinished heroogony.

Whether or not Hesiod added it himself, it should be no surprise that at the end of the Theogony there is a short heroogony (937f).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.